Frustration

I am so tired of 'losing' things.  This morning I wanted to finish cutting the background blocks for both the Christmas Row by Row and the Vintage Tin quilts that I'm working on.  Everything went fine with the Christmas RxR... things changed once I switched over to the Vintage Tin.  I've kept both projects in separate boxes so that everything is organized when I have the time ( and in the right mood) to work on either one.

I remember taking the lid off from the Vintage Tin box and seeing the pattern for the next block I want to embroider.  I moved it to get to the fabric underneath.... that's when my Hell began.  I don't know where I set it when I moved it - obviously not someplace close by or obvious because now I CANT find it!!!!   I've moved things, searched through the box several times, checked to see if it had fallen on the floor - looked UNDER the box which was sitting in my chair... even moved the freezer out a bit to see if it had fallen behind when I was putting the fabric onto the freezer top ( my cutting surface).   I went through every page of the pattern... every pattern there except this one - which is actually two patterns on the same paper.   It's nowhere to be found!!!!

And this isn't the only thing missing.  I've also been searching high and low for my pattern book that I used to make step-daughter a nativity wall hanging and table runner a few years ago.  Now that I want to make them for my oldest daughter, I can't find it.  I don't know if I loaned it out, donated it to the UFO auction or if it's just 'hiding in a really good place'.

Enough is enough!  I'm taking a nap.

TTYL

Ok, took a nap ( about 2 1/2 hours) ... still no sight of either of the MIA pattern/book.  So, after the nap I went looking for the pattern to make one of those small 'snap' bags - made with metal measuring tape - I found one, but it's larger than what I want to make.  Can I find the pattern for the smaller one???  OHN (oh, h--- no).

Apparently, it's just not my day to get things done in my sewing room.  It's getting ridiculous, though.... I've been cleaning the room over the past couple of weeks so it's not like the Vintage Tin pattern could get 'lost' in a pile - especially since I didn't set it aside to work on later.  I was in a small 3 foot by 3 foot area - it COULDN'T have gotten that far away.  I am really getting frustrated - even  asked St. Anthony to help me, but he is either ignoring me while he searches for more important things - or he realized that I'm a Southern Baptist  LOL.

I've gone through the drawers in the file cabinet and looked through one of the pattern boxes out here in the living room looking for the snap bag pattern... no luck so far, but have other places to check for that.  I just thought that while I still had the fabric scraps out in front of me from making my new purse/bag ( one that I've been wanting to do for at least two years) yesterday, I'd make me a little change purse and maybe a tissue case to match it.  I guess I'll have to set the fabric scraps aside ( and probably lose them, too) until I find the pattern.  It hung on the gray shelves for the longest time; I saw it daily.  I'm thinking I stashed it away when I replace that set of shelves - just WHERE is the question.

Almost dinner time... then back to doing SOMETHING in my sewing room until it's time for my Sunday evening shows.

TTYL
Update: 12:04 a.m.

I found the missing Vintage Tin pattern.... it wasn't in the box it was supposed to be after all... I must have thought I had moved it but moved something else instead.  It was in the Amish with a Twist BOM box!!   Thank you St. Anthony <3 <3   Now, please help me find the other two items I'm searching for, pretty please.  :)